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Dragoș Iustin Palade

Plasma physicist at INFLPR, Bucharest/Măgurele, working on turbulent transport in fusion plasmas, quantum plasmas, and selected applications of machine learning to modelling and diagnostics.

Head of the Plasma Theory Group. Scientific Researcher III.

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Tokamak plasma confinement device
Research topics include fusion plasma confinement, turbulent transport, and theoretical modelling.

Profile

Dragoș Iustin Palade studied physics at the Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, completing BSc, MSc, and PhD studies. His PhD, defended in 2019 summa cum laude, focused on applications of transport models in the study of quantum plasmas.

He joined INFLPR in 2013, became Head of the Plasma Theory Group in 2020, and Scientific Researcher III in 2021. His research focus moved from many-body quantum systems toward turbulent transport in fusion plasmas.

Research

Turbulent transport in fusion plasmas

Modelling and characterization of transport regimes in magnetized plasmas, with emphasis on reduced descriptions, stochastic trajectories, and connections to tokamak transport problems.

Machine learning for plasma modelling

Physics-aware and interpretable use of machine learning for transport prediction, surrogate modelling, and analysis of complex plasma data.

Quantum plasmas and many-body transport

Earlier work on transport models for quantum systems and nonlocal kinetic-pressure descriptions.

EUROfusion and projects

Team member in EUROfusion-related work packages including WPMST1 and WPTE. Principal Investigator of a UEFISCDI research grant on machine learning tools for turbulent transport prediction.

Selected Publications

  1. T3ST code: turbulent transport in tokamaks via stochastic trajectories, D.I. Palade and L.M. Pomârjanschi, Nucl. Fusion 65, 086007, 2025.
  2. Predicting the turbulent transport of cosmic rays via neural networks, D.I. Palade, JCAP 01, 002, 2024.
  3. Peaking and hollowness of low-Z impurity profiles: an interplay between ITG and TEM induced turbulent transport, D.I. Palade, Nucl. Fusion 63, 046007, 2023.
  4. Nonlocal orbital-free kinetic pressure tensors for the Fermi gas, D.I. Palade, Phys. Rev. B 98, 245401, 2018.

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Contact

Dragoș Iustin Palade
INFLPR - L22
Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania

dragos.palade@inflpr.ro